Card-table attachment



(No Model.)

L. DRUDB & E. ST. ARNAULD.

CARD TABLE ATTACHMENT.

No 378,241; Patented Feb. 21 1888.

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Minn STATES ATENT tries,

V LOUIS DRUDE AND EDMOND ST. ARNAULD, OF MERIDEN, CONNECTICUT.

CARD TABLE ATTACHMENT.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 378,241, dated February 21, 1888. Application filed February 21, 1887. Serial No. 228,295. (No model.)

To aZZ whom it may concern:

Be it known that we, LoUls DRUDE and ED- MONI) ST. ARNAULD, of Meriden,iu the county of New Haven and State of Connecticut, have jointly invented a certain new and useful Inr provenient in Card Table Attachments, of which the following is a description, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, wherein- Figure 1 is a top view. Fig. 2 is aside view with one end of the top broken away. Fig. 3 is a bottom View with the pendent sponge omitted.

The object of this improvement is the pro d notion of a removable attachment for atable on which games of cards or the like are played.

The letter a denotes a table.

b denotes a slate or similarsurface on which to keep a score of the game with a pencil or the like.

0 denotes a clamp-21, spring;clamp-its free end pressing upward against the under side of the table and there provided with the points 0, to take a sure hold of the under side of the table; and (i denotes a sponge, pendent by a string, for cleansing the surface of the slate.

The letter denotes a cup.

f denotes pencil-sockets.

9 denotes a match-socket, and h It denote cigar-rests, which are in shape like a part of a tube having cutaways h, for convenience in grasping a cigar laid therein, and an ash-orifice, h, these cigar-rests being set obliquely with the orifice end lowermost.

The use and operation of the device are aph parent from the description.

By means of the clamp the device is made attachable to and removable from a card-table or the like at pleasure. The pencilsockets hold pencils for writing on the slate. fhe match-socket holds matches for lighting cigars and the like, and the cigar-restsarefor holding lighted cigars. On the outer side of the cup :1 there is a scrateher for matches.

lVe claim as our improvement- 1. As a new article of manufacture, a cardtable attachment consisting of a cup having attached to one side inclined cigar-troughs, and having attached to top edge of the other side a slate and to the bottom edge of the latter side a clamp, all substantially as described, and for the purpose specified.

2. As a new article of manufacture, a card table attachment consisting of a cup provided with sockets f and g and troughs h, and having attached to the top edge of one side aslate andto the bottomedge of the same side a clamp, all substantially as described.

LOUIS DRUDE. EDMOND ST. ARNAULD.

\Vitnesses:

Ones. O. PICKHARDT, GILBERT OHAMBAULT. 

